Category: Thoughts & quotes from Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. & Susan Hawkins

The level of consciousness is set …by karmic merit, which is the totality, the  composite of spiritual decisions of the spiritual will. It’s the spiritual will that is the source of the center from which you evolve spiritually. The center out of which you come for your spiritual work is the spiritual will. It’s the spiritual will which sets karma, and not necessarily actions.

So, you see your feelings and your emotions shift up and down the scale here all the time, but that doesn’t change your intention. Your intention is quite a deliberate thing. Your intention is more or less the stabilizer of the ship. And you make little corrections, you know, when you’re driving. You are making constant little corrections in the wheel. But if your intention is to drive east, you will continue to drive east. These are fluctuations. We all periodically get annoyed, angry, fearful, et cetera, but our intention remains the same, so intention—a decision of the spiritual will is apparently what sets karma. When you have had a chance to think about it, reflect on it, and decide to make that move, then now that is permanent. So, every action, thought, feeling, every decision we make is then reflected in the infinite field of consciousness, where it is retrievable forever.

…So, the karma is like a little traveling program, a little computer chip in your spirit body; and it pretty much determines where you’re going to go and how you’re going to behave and what’s going to happen. Is that predestination? Well, predestination is just a term. You could call it that; you could say that what befalls you in this lifetime is a combination of karma plus your exercise of the freedom of choice. On the other hand, karma has limited your choices. You cannot decide right now to become a
squirrel in the next instant, you know what I mean? Your choices are limited. You can decide to be poor in a hurry, but to be rich in
a hurry takes longer.

New! The Evolution of Consciousness: Navigating the Levels of Awareness
and Unlocking Spiritual Potential , Ch. 2, pg. 48-50

This book comprises  the transcriptions from the March and April 2002 lectures.

The high state that people seek, by whatever means, is in fact the experience field of their own consciousness (Self).  If they are spiritually unsophisticated and lack a context with which to comprehend the experience, they believe it is created from something “out there” (such as a guru, music, drugs, lover, and so forth.) All that has actually happened is that, under special circumstances, they have experienced their own inner reality.

…A negative self-image blots out the joyous brilliance that is the true essence of their identities, which therefore goes unrecognized. That this joyous, peaceful, fulfilling state is in reality one’s own inner essence has been the basic tenet of every great spiritual teacher ( for example, “the kingdom of God is within you”).

Power vs Force, Ch. 6, pg. 127-128

Spiritual intention and commitment, especially when accompanied by prayer, declaration, invocation, and devotion, change the predominant influential consciousness energy field, which is coordinated by its powerful ‘attractor field’ of energy.  Thus, spiritual declaration and intention, inadvertently and often beyond awareness, change the rules by which one lives, and seemingly disparate life situations, including emotions, are now orchestrated from a different level that is frequently disparate with customary expectations of the personal ego and society.  These may result in transitory conflict in emotional or personal situations because the goals of the Spirit/Self are not those of the ego/self.

Forgiveness is an extremely important major tool, especially when it is combined with the willingness of humility and acceptance of human fallibility and susceptibility to error.  From spiritual intention, the surrendering of egoistic options may seem like a sacrifice, but when recontextualized, they are revealed to be a hidden gift.

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: Ch. 19, pg. 332

Devotion prioritizes one’s life and attracts that which is of assistance.  To be a servant of God is a dedication whereby the goal takes precedence over all other positionalities, attractions, or distractions.  By devotion and commitment, the pathway unfolds and revelation supplants presumptive cause-and-effect acquisition.

…All actions become recontexualized, and their spiritual essence begins to shine through appearances. Devotion also expresses as selfless service whereby peeling the potatoes is no longer a chore but an act of love because it has been sanctified by intention. Eventually all action is dedicated as an act of worship.

Devotion opens up vision, which replaces perception.  Only by the surrender that accompanies devotion does intended action reveal itself to be a spontaneous unfolding of the evolution of Creation itself.  Devotion to God replaces the ego’s devotion to its own self-interest, and one witnesses the effects or consequences of the overall field.

Discovery of the Presence of God, Ch. 1, pg. 35-35

What is it that observes and is aware of all of the subjective and objective phenomena of life?

It is consciousness itself that is both awareness and the source of experiencing.  Both are purely subjective. Consciousness itself is not determined by content; thoughts flowing through consciousness are like fish swimming in the ocean.  The ocean’s  existence is independent of the fish; the content of the sea does not define the nature of the water.  Like a colorless ray, consciousness illuminates the object witnessed – thus its traditional depiction throughout world literature is with “light.”

Identification solely with the content of consciousness accounts for the experience of self as limited. In contrast, to identify with consciousness itself is to know that one’s actual self is unlimited.  When circumscribed self-identifications have been surmounted so that the sense of self is identified as consciousness itself, the condition is called, “enlightened.”

Power vs Force, Ch. 21, pg. 272-273